Verse 1
Judges 15:1
Literal Standard Version
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And it comes to pass after some days, in the days of wheat-harvest, that Samson looks after his wife, with a kid of the goats, and says, “I go in to my wife, to the inner chamber”; and her father has not permitted him to go in,
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יְהִ֨י מִ/יָּמִ֜ים בִּ/ימֵ֣י קְצִיר חִטִּ֗ים וַ/יִּפְקֹ֨ד שִׁמְשׁ֤וֹן אֶת אִשְׁתּ/וֹ֙ בִּ/גְדִ֣י עִזִּ֔ים וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר אָבֹ֥אָה אֶל אִשְׁתִּ֖/י הֶ/חָ֑דְרָ/ה וְ/לֹֽא נְתָנ֥/וֹ אָבִ֖י/הָ לָ/בֽוֹא
English Translation
And it happened in the days of the wheat harvest that Samson visited his wife with a young goat, and he said, "I will go to my wife in her chamber," but her father did not allow him to go in.
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Chapter 15 Context
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And it comes to pass after some days, in the days of wheat-harvest, that Samson looks after his wife...
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and her father says, “I certainly said that you surely hated her, and I give her to your companion;...
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And Samson says of them, “I am more innocent this time than the Philistines, though I am doing evil...
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And Samson goes and catches three hundred foxes, and takes torches, and turns tail to tail, and puts...
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and kindles fire in the torches, and sends them out into the standing grain of the Philistines, and...
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And the Philistines say, “Who has done this?” And they say, “Samson, son-in-law of the Timnite, beca...
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And Samson says to them, “Though you do thus, nevertheless I am avenged on you, and afterward I ceas...
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And he strikes them hip and thigh with a great striking, and goes down and dwells in the cleft of th...
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And the Philistines go up, and encamp in Judah, and are spread out in Lehi,
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and the men of Judah say, “Why have you come up against us?” And they say, “We have come up to bind...
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And three thousand men of Judah go down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and say to Samson, “Have y...
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And they say to him, “We have come down to bind you—to give you into the hand of the Philistines.” A...
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And they speak to him, saying, “No, but we certainly bind you, and have given you into their hand, a...
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He has come to Lehi—and the Philistines have shouted at meeting him—and the Spirit of YHWH prospers...
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and he finds a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and puts forth his hand and takes it, and strikes down one...
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And Samson says, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heap on heaps—I have struck down one thousand men wi...
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And it comes to pass, when he finishes speaking, that he casts away the jawbone out of his hand, and...
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and he thirsts exceedingly, and calls to YHWH, and says, “You have given this great salvation by the...
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And God (Elohim) cleaves the hollow place which is in Lehi, and waters come out of it, and he drinks...
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And he judges Israel in the days of the Philistines for twenty years.
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